Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-28
LOCAL NEWS.

HKIe1 MenGAOns
Full line morocco memorandas at Dor
man'e.
Mr.. G. g. Clark conducted the services a
the Seamen's Bethel yesterday.
The new Town hall in Bridgeport, nov
nearly finished, will seat !, 800 people
The large barn of Oliver Bailey at Haddar
was burned on Friday with six horses an,
three COWS.
Rev. II. G. Hovey Iectured before tn
Bridgeport Scientific society Friday night Oh
"T0rnadoes.
for fifty cents an acre the other day. The
sale was to pay taxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Post of Westbrook
celebrated Thursday, 18th, the sixty-fft
anniversary of their marriage.
On Saturday night Mr.. Charles Cooper was
presented with bouncing baby boy. Both
mother and son are doing well.
One hundred and City presents, represent
ing $500, will be distributed to holders of
season tickets to the Grand Army fair
The monthly meeting of the board of man
ayers of the Y. W. @. A. will be held on
this (Monday) afternoon at three o'clock
Mr.. G. E. Woodward of East Haven is in
Kingston, Canada, purchasing cattle for his
farm and otherwise. He returns in few
days.
The Baptist church in Canton, built in
1905, is to be remodeled, and will have stain
ed glass windows and other modern improve
ments.
The Arion society of this city will be well
raOraaaOtad at he hapa6t To he o-;var b1z Kb.
Concordia society of Bridgeport December 4
to Professor Emile Peters.
Tomorrow evening the first of a series of
five lectures on medieval Song" will be
given in the lecture room of the Church of
the Redeemer by Rev. j. Foote Bingham,
DID.
The governing board of the New Haven
Toboggan club have leased the lot betwe cen
Everit, Cold Spring and Orange streets, of
the Yale corporation, and will use it as site
for the clubs slide.
The Misses Schneeloch of this city are en-
gagged to sing at the grand concert by the
American band of Providence in Boston next
Saturday evening. They sang at the bands
concerts at the Hub last year.
William Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil
company, has constructed in his deer park at
Greenwich a log hut in primitive style,
although within it is handsomely furnished.
In this he spends much of his Sunday time in
the summer season.
Word has been received in Hartford of the
death of Tchenk Yung, one of the Chinese
boys who attended school in that city in
1874, at his home near Macao, China. He
was bright student. He was nephew of
Hon. Yung Wing of Hartford.
Tonight Professor W. P. Blake will read
valuable and no doubt a very interesting
paper before the New Haven Colony Histori
cal society on cell Whitney, the Inventor of
the Cotton Gin" The annual election of the
society also takes place tonight.
The first grand annual soiree Court Andrew
jackson No. 6,84S, 10. F. will be held in the
old Union armory, corner of Chapel and
Union streets, on Monday evening, December
II. Thomas orchestra will furnish music
and Professor Dunn will do the prompting.
Elias W. Leavenworth, who died in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, Friday, graduated at Yale class
of 1924. He had held the Offices of MAYOR.
assemblyman and congressman and was
PAOnInout lawyer. he studied law with
William Cullen Bryant and at the once famous
LitchGeld Law school.
Work at the L. Candee rubber mandatory
continues very brisk. At the Hooker car
rage factory work will be resumed this
morning. The shop shut down last Wednes-
day night for the week. Business is brisk
at the factory and they have twenty ak
blacksmith fires running
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal notes that "F.
g. Stanley of this city has sold the famous
trotting horse Rocket to William Nicely of
Bolton & Nicely, New Haven, for $4,000.
Rocket has 2:291S record, obtained in Ban
gor last September, and is beautiful animal
in style, shape and disposition.
Rev. Lorin S. Gates, for ten years mis-
sionary in India and for the past year en-
gagged in lecturing in this country, left for |
New York Saturday with his wife and Eve /
children and in the afternoon sailed for /
Bombay via Liverpool. Mr.. Gates graduated
from the Yale Theological school in the class
of rs.